Of course, price and price-rise differs wildly across the state. Take San Juan Island, for instance. The median home there costs a staggering one million dollars. Yet in Grays Harbor, median home price bottoms out at $141,000. Across the state, median home price hovers just above $305,000 (note: this is the first time Washington as a state has passed the real estate highs of 2007).

How about the price-rise? Well, state-wide, that $305,000 median price represents a 37-percent increase from four years ago. Just in the past year, home prices in metro areas have jumped 5 percent. The exception: Wenatchee, where prices dropped 3 percent. If you want cheap housing: Grays Harbor and Wenatchee, folks.

But for those of you who want to stay in King County, you’re looking at a median home price of $508,000. Let’s break that down further, shall we? We’ll do this two ways: (1) we’ll look at median price in various neighborhoods, and (2) we’ll look what $1,000,000 gets you in various neighborhoods.